He wrote biographies of singers such as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Brigitte Fassbaender, and created television portraits of pianists such as Claudio Arrau and Wilhelm Kempff.
In autumn 1944, he was therefore able to study music at the Musikhochschule Dresden,[1] with a focus on violin, which he extended after the Second World War to include conductor training with Walther Meyer-Giesow, Hermann Abendroth and Joseph Keilberth.
[2] He also worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Christ und Welt [de] and Westermanns Monatshefte and wrote radio features for various broadcasting companies.
In the course of his long-standing collaboration with Peter Rocholl [de], the SR music director and long-standing music coordinator of the ARD, he created highly acclaimed television portraits of the pianists Claudio Arrau, Andor Foldes and Wilhelm Kempff as well as on the vocal soloists Viorica Ursuleac, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,[5] Peter Schreier and Hans Hotter.
[2] In 1979, Lewinski began teaching at the Musikhochschule Köln and at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt as the head of the seminar Music Criticism and Comparative Interpretation Studies.